winforms - Using Castle.Windsor with Windows Forms Applications

Question

Up until this point, I have been learning IoC/DI with Castle.Windsor using ASP.NET MVC, but I have a side project that is being done in Windows Forms, and I was wondering if there is an effective way to use it for that.

My problem is in the creation of forms, services, etc. In ASP.NET MVC, there is a sort of 'Activator' that does this under the hood, but this isn't the case in Windows Forms. I have to create a new Form like var form = new fclsMain();, so a Form like ..

class fclsMain : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
 private readonly ISomeRepository<SomeClass> someRepository;
 fclsMain(ISomeRepository<SomeClass> someRepository)
 {
  this.someRepository = someRepository;
 }
}

Falls kind of short. I would basically have to do ...

var form = new fclsMain(IoC.Resolve<ISomeRepository<SomeClass>);

Which as I have had pointed out in at least three of my questions isn't smart, because it's supposedly not the 'correct' usage of IoC.

So how do I work with Castle.Windsor and Windows Forms? Is there some way to design a Form Activator or something? I'm really lost, if I can't make a static IoC container that I can resolve from, what can I do?

Answer 1

Here you are doing something that are not very "Dependency Injection"...

var form = new fclsMain(IoC.Resolve<ISomeRepository<SomeClass>);

The "new" is the problem... You have to call

var form = IoC.Resolve<fcls>();

the form of type fcls must be correctly configured via Fluent Registration API o